Creating a Healthy Staff Environment
When all the actors understand their responsibilities and respect their boundaries, both the staff and the congregation are more likely to enjoy a healthy staff environment.
Sarai Rice
Six Rules for Letting Go when You Retire
In a month, I will retire after eleven years as a non-profit executive. Now that it is finally happening, I’m forced to make up the rules as I go.
How Can I Supervise People Whose Jobs I Don’t Know How to Do?
Most supervisors must supervise people whose work they could not do. One key to success is a well-written job description.
How to Lead While Polarized
I am as enmeshed in our current state of polarization as it’s possible for anyone to be. But those of us who are leaders cannot stay here.
Reaching Across Boundaries of Faith
Religious diversity is a gift. Even for those of us who are profoundly convinced of the “rightness” of our tradition, conversation with people of other faiths often provides moments of startling insight, not just into the beliefs and rituals of those who think otherwise but into the deepest heart of our own beliefs.
Spiritual Self-Care For People With No Time
I needed something like Will Strunk’s Elements of Style for spirituality—pithy rules like “use the active voice” or “omit needless words,” to reorient my life the way Strunk’s book has sharpened up my writing. Here’s what I came up with.
Are You Shrink-Smart?
“Shrink-Smart” communities have something to teach congregations about how to thrive where population is declining.